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*I never saw "El Caballo" construe his rhetorical efforts as "science fiction" before. That's pretty strange. I wonder if Fidel is reading a lot of science fiction to beguile his twilight years.

*English translation follows.

http://www.cubadebate.cu/reflexiones-fidel/2009/11/12/una-historia-de-ciencia-ficcion/

Reflexiones de Fidel

Una historia de ciencia ficción

Como lamento tener que criticar a Obama, conociendo que, en ese país, hay
otros posibles Presidentes peores que él. Comprendo que ese...

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*Those Norwegians…

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Piksel09 :: festival

November 19-22 2009

Piksel09 :: exhibition

Nov. 20/09 - Jan. 10/10

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We are also changing the world!

- the 7th annual Piksel festival for

- Electronic Art and Technological Freedom is on!

- in Bergen, Norway

—> Get inspired by Exhibitions

—> Get amazed by LIVEart performances

—> Get wiser through Seminars

—> Get sustained by Workshops

Biohacking...

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*I'm keen on these Beyond guys because they are into "architecture fiction."

http://shrapnelcontemporary.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/beyond-again/

"The current issue of Beyond is being launched next Thursday 19th, 6pm, within the International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam, at the Nai.

"After Venice (with Yehuda Safran, Reed Krolloff, Shumon Basar and Map Office), after Harvard (with Eve Blau), after London (with Colin Fournier, Sam Jacob and Liam Young), it is my immense pleasure to announce ...

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*Tamara Mellon is famed for Beyond the Beyond readers as the victim of one of the weirdest computer-intrusion scandals we ever covered. So it's pleasant to see our Tamara soldiering on three years later, high heels, Botox and all. Goes to show that having bent spooks rampage through your PC isn't always the end of the world.

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2006/01/british_centipe/

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/fashion/article-23768523-running-in-heels-tamara-mellons-guide-to-life.do

"Int...

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*From SANS (and don't say they didn't warn you:)

–iPhone Data Stealing Exploit Released

(November 11, 2009)

"The same vulnerability that was used to spread a relatively harmless
worm is now being exploited to allow attackers to steal data from
jailbroken iPhones. An estimated six to eight percent of iPhones are
jailbroken, meaning they have been modified to allow applications and
other code to run on the devices even if that code has not been signed
by Apple. The attackers can access music...

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*Spookocracy in power. Terrorists and spooks are like Windows and Intel.

*Y'know, this isn't North Korea under discussion here — it's Britain, "Mother of Parliaments," "Britons never never shall be slaves," "man's home is his castle" and all that. It's not that the British don't already Echelon everything they can get their wavelengthy hands on, 'cause they do. This isn't an innovation, it's an attempt to give British spookocracy some modern transparency. Why they would wanna do that, and ...

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*Nice that it's still so raw and messed-up there. Nice cinema verite vernacular video, too.

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*Gosh, that looks kinda handy. Doesn't show where the chips themselves have gone, but it's a nice heat-map of the industry.

http://www.rfidjournalevents.com/map.php

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*Archispeak alert.

http://youyouidiot.blogspot.com/2009/11/albert-speer-and-fascist-theory-of.html

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"So what are the basic points of the 'fascist theory of ruins'? The 'nationalisation' of victimhood and melancholy, the attempted closure after an encounter with genuine disappearance, a distrust of modernisation, and lashings of sentimentality. It's quite easy really.

"What complicates matters somewhat is that Speer also designed the 'cathedral of light', which was part of the very same...

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*Y'know, there are certain forms of media mashup that instinctively provoke an urge to throw their inventors off a cliff. Not that "vooks" are one of 'em. Oh no.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/books_online_video_vooks.php

*I don't have much trouble with, say, authors on video… except that they're ugly, and they never shut up… So there's bound to be some positive, useful niche for "vooks"… For instance, I'd be super-interested in a vook of Lord Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"...

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